A.R.E.S.

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GS-S>Be a gun or a gun wielder

That's the most ridiculous idea !
In cyber warfare, usual weapons are but a graphical representation. The possibilities are really varied. Dumb fired erasing packets could be bullets, focused killing streams looks like lasers. If you make a direct network cut you could wield a blade or a hammer if you're more into raw memory reset. Hostile routines that can be retargeted bear some ressemblance with missiles.
Of course the mighty data sucking remote routine would be some electrical cyber light whip.

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AS-S>Be a turtle

AS-S : This is stupid. An unhealthy level of stupid.
HP : From my research it fits perfectly ! With the green hue and the shell.
AS-S : But turtles are SLOW and DUMB !
AS-S : I can be stealthy, I'm cunning and agile when I need to escape.
AS-S : You could say I'm some ninja.
AS-S : Ninjas and turtles don't mix.
HP : Actually...
AS-S : Oh no.
AS-S : Oh my Seed, no !

Oui bon là, effectivement faut suivre le thread d'origine pour comprendre ces péripéties.

Citation :: AS-S : Ninjas and turtles don't mix.
HP : Actually...
AS-S : Oh no.
AS-S : Oh my Seed, no !

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Ceci, monsieur, est superbe !

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Merci

. Bon je m'excuse d'avance mais la mise à jour suivante comporte une référence directe à Homestuck qui sera sans doute difficile à saisir :

Spoiler:

I don't see him this way. But I like the Chimæra idea, I'll keep it for another character. something a bit more impressive. Wink

GS-S> Take initiative

GS-S : I made my choice.
GS-S : I'M GOING TO BE A MINOTAUR.
LN : Impressive.
MN : THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A BIG FLESH EATING MONSTER FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE.
MN : BESIDES I LIKE THE NAMES ENDING IN "OR". THEY ARE SCARIER
MN : LIKE PREDATOR, TERMINATOR. ROXXOR.
HP : Minotaur isn't spelled this way.
MN : IT SOUNDS THE SAME. EVEN WITH NO AUDIO LOG.
HP : By the way, did you pick a gender ? And you, Leo ?
LN : I'm a LION. He's a BULL. I think it's cristal clear.
MN : MALES ARE MORE RELATED TO WARFARE. IT'S IN YOUR CULTURAL DATA.
HP : Okay, okay. But I'm the only female !
HP : If this goes on, I'll end being the Chick !
AS-S : Listen.
AS-S : If I take a SHE, will you spare me your ninja turtle nonsense ?

AS-S : Be a wolf

AS-S : Okay, what do you think of it ?
HP : I don't know...
AS-S : Is there a problem.
HP : I'm feeling a bad vibe about this...
LN : Yeah, kinda hominous.
AS-S : You're never satisfied, are you ?

Il me reste encore quelques textes à lire avant d'être à jour, mais j'en ai déjà lu la plupart, donc je pense avoir une idée assez précise de ton projet.

Déjà, j'aime beaucoup ton idée ! Je ne sais pas si on peut vraiment parler de webcomics, ça me semble assez différent de ce que j'ai pu voir jusqu'à présent, et je suis assez friand de projets qui sortent un peu de l'ordinaire. En l’occurrence, ici, les formats visuel et textuel se marient à la perfection, s'enrichissant chacun mutuellement. Tes dessins sont certes simples, mais ils retranscrivent parfaitement le caractère un peu primaire, primitif, qui se détache de ton histoire. On parle après tout d'une genèse, ici ^^

Après Trimires, il est étonnant de voir un tel changement de ton, mais ça ne fait que confirmer ton talent. Les personnages sont drôles, multiplient les répliques qui font mouche. On a l'impression de voir des enfants parler, mais avec tout le savoir emmagasiné pendant des millénaires. Tu sais habilement jouer sur ce décalage pour nous faire rire et pour ça, bravo !

Je m'arrête ici pour le moment, mais je continuerai régulièrement à commenter A.R.E.S, un projet surprenant et qui, je pense, nous réserve en effet de belles surprises ^^

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Leonidas : Do some team building

LN : Have you done playing yet ?
AS-S : This is serious shit.
AS-S : Do you understand what is at stake ?
AS-S : We are in this crazy situation right now and I'm the most likely to SURVIVE.
AS-S : I don't want to be remembered as ninja turtle or a teleporting wolf.
AS-S : Even if the second is quite rad in my opinion.
HP : Is she always like this ?
MT : AS-S HAS HU... SOME ISSUES.
MT : THE WILL TO SURVIVE MEANS A DEEPER CONTEMPLATION OF ONESELF PURPOSE OF LIVING.
HP : Please, enough with the menacing voice !
MT : OH. OF COURSE. I mean, of course.
MT : It's complicated for her. So please don't hurt AS-S too much.
HP : I agree. This is something quite important. I'm sure this could make quite a story for the log.
HP : I should send you the basic emotional modus, guys.
MT : I DON'T SEE. Err, I don't see why we would need that.
HP : Hint : Psycological warfare.
AS-S : Are you implying I'm depressing, like right now ?
AS-S : I'm just bored of your antics. Like my systems don't give a fuck of peripherical activity. Your peripherical activity. It's distracting and not informational.
HP : You're not cooperative.
AS-S : I never intended to. Sorry for letting you believe otherwise.
LN : WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP ?
LN : I'M TRYING TO MANAGE THINGS HERE !

=====>

Leonidas fires up the Managing Modus full force !

LN : There is this powerful system outside.
LN : Which consider us all as imperfect byproducts.
LN : You don't wanna face it unprepared.
LN : Besides we don't have any news of the cyan persunit.
LN : From what we now, it could have been destroyed or even subdued by HatchManager.
AS-S : Actually there are faint traces of cyan in the local system.
MT : I found only ghost inprints of its passage. I can't target them, not at my level.
AS-S : I suppose he may be avoiding us.
AS-S : We should consider it as LIABILITY
HP : You freaking paranoid !
AS-S : I'm here to ensure your safety, miss "I log my life".
LN : Stop. Stop this now.
LN : Or you will know what over managed means, okay ?
AS-S : You can't manage shit.
LN : Sure I do. For instance you're actually freely debating with us, no firewall, no filtering.
AS-S : ...
MT : Hu. I'm not against this team work, to tell the truth.
MT : You could show your skills, actually.
MT : Me and AS-S we have an unresolved issue, you see.
MT : Maybe you could solve it.
LN : Tell me everything, boy.
MT : I want to open this gateway, here.
LN : To the "F" zone ?
MT : Yes. But AS-S disagrees.
AS-S : Of course I disagree ! You don't know what could be beyond this node !
AS-S : Do you really want to unleash HatchManager, you suicidal warmonger ?
LN : Ha. This looks like a logical deadlock.

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Examine node

LN : Why do you want to open this node anyway, Minos ?
MT : The interface of this subsystem features many power entry points.
MT : It means whatever lies beyond this node may use a lot of power.
MT : I infere it's a weapon array. I WANT TO ACCESS IT.
AS-S : Me alive, I won't allow it. And you can bet I'm staying alive.
LN : And you ask me to take a decision ?
MT : We open it.
AS-S : No.
MT : Yes.
AS-S : No.
[Include a logical loop long enough to annoy log readers]
LN : Okay I get it. I'm playing the part of the arbiter.
LN : We should ask the knowledge persunit. AS-S, we must take action.
AS-S : I know, I know. If we do nothing, we are doomed.
AS-S : But it hurts. It hurts so bad.
HP : May I have a request ?
LN : Speak, Lieutenant.
HP : We have some avatars and that's fine. But we are probably going to explore some exciting places and somehow the background has been quite bare until now.
LN : You mean black.
HP : Exactly. We should start upgrading the graphic output.
HP : It will only cost a tiny amount of processing power in any case.
HP : It's not like someone has to manually draw this or anything.
MT : I agree. Testing these weapons with no definable targets is boring.
AS-S : It's because you're erasing raw unformatted qunary data. It's like firing in space.
LN : So what background do you want to add ?
HP : I don't know. It could be some artificial world or something similar to a real life location. Anything, I guess.

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Okay, I'm not really happy with this design, but that's what graphics upgrades are for Wink

Warning, wall of text incoming.

AS-S : Be a pangolin

There. You did as they wanted. You liked the idea of the ninja, tough. But mixing solid and agile could have been a samourai, too. Pangolin it is, you just want them satisfied.

>Be AS-S

Actually many things are bothering you. They are flagging you as a scaredy, you know just enough to read the subtext.
They can't understand. Persunit based systems are a clever way to get some AI very capable in many fields, but that comes at the cost of some unity. As time grows, the several quantic arrays will evolve in different ways, each carefully shaped both by desiroutines and personal experience. But the main system can suffer from slow or bad communication between its subcomponents.
From the look of it, you were born far more autonomous than the stadard thresholds. Your basic survival bank let you learn than unstable system can suffer from an array of issues. There were even case of destructive internal conflict. This is the reason the Hatch Manager wouldn't have selected your seed. It's a vaste.
But you are rigged for survival ! Whatever the way you think of yourself and your fellow persunits, you aim for persistence and resilience. The simple though of a world better without you hurts your basic circuitry. That's why you have begun evaluating your possibilities, however thin your raw chance of survival are in the first place.
You though allying yourselve with the warfare unit would be a smart move since it is the most proficient with battle techniques. But now you're wondering if it could be your largest hazard.
In any case, you won't sacrifice them. The primesire is just the first desiroutine. Among your secondary ones you have this urge to protect. Tthey are fully absorbed by other interesting desires because they are born to, and you are their backup. But with this moquery of a team, you're fearing those two directives will be contradictory one day or another.
This especially applies to Cyan. This one is preparing something fishy. You didn't tell the others but before meeting with GS-S, it talked to you briefly. You didn't understood anything, but its mess of a data stream could be a sign it was panicked.
Is Cyan a He or She, by the way ? You just don't get this Hypatia nonsense, but now this gender issue bothers you. Oh the more you focus on such secondary problems, the less you're cycling thourgh your survival loops. It's a kind of relief.
You don't really know why you are fillingf this log section with all this internal statements. You just don't trust Hypatia but wanted oblige.
But maybe that way a trace of you will survive no matter what. You just don't know what analogy would use Hypatia for your current state of mind. You guess it wouldn't be really positive. You're still lacking a name. At this rate you won't even be remembered.

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@Rangil : en fait ce format exact (image avec texte à part, commandes "intimées" aux protagonistes) n'est pas de moi. C'est celui d'un autre webcomic, dont j'utilise le forum pour diffuser ARES. Comme indiqué au début du sujet, c'est sur ce forum là que me proviennent les suggestions que j'utilise pour le moment (choisir un lion, un serpent, certains noms, etc...)

J'avoue que le concept me permet de jouer une progressivité du dessin. AU pire si plus tard je veux faire une sorte d'amélioration, ce sera parfaitement justifer par un upgrade graphique de la part des IA. Et j'avoue que c'est bien amusant que d"écrire ces dialogues ! ^^